Not Your Sweetie

"Good heavens ..."
Author samela    

you've drunk the Kool-Aid again, but this time from listening, I suspect, to too much AM talk radio.
Democrats bowing to PETA? Give me a break. I missed that one.
You have total amnesia about what this election was about. It was about jobs lost to outsousrcing. It was about health insurance costs rising. It was about being mislead into a war in Iraq. It was about civil liberties assaulted in the Patriot Act. And then, in the end, it was about a tape mailed in from Osama.
Bush and Cheney were not talking about guns. They were not talking about gay marriage. They were not talking about animal rights or wrongs. They were not talking about abortion. THose things were talked about on the pulpits of the churches whose membership lists they obtained. It was a backdoor campaign? WHY? Because most of the nation disagrees with them on these subjects, and they have to whisper them to this tiny but important part of their base in the dark of night, in the back rooms, and in code. They can't reveal them to the rest of the nation ... who poll after poll show to be in agreement with Democrats' openly stated positions on a whole range of these issues.
The Democrats put on a convention show wrapped in flags and tough talk and patriotic songs. John Kerry and John Edwards sat on front porches and addressed groups of believers in churches. They opposed gay marriage in favor of civil unions (as 60% of the nation agrees), they demurred on abortion by saying their personal beliefs could not interfere with the law of the land and the will of the people. They donned duck-hunters garbs and rifles. What do you want them to do? Start espousing trickle-down economics and advocate tax cuts? Start calling homsexuals the spawn of Satan and telling women their place should be in the kitchens?
The margin of error in this election was no doubt the 4 million more evangelical Christians the Republicans managed to get out with their push polls and whisper campaigns. That pushed them over the top. Do NOT confuse that with the beliefs and values of a majority of Americans. Iraq + Terror was the main issue of this campaign. The media allowed Kerry to be beat up on in questions regarding his national security credentials in time of war. The terror warnings and Osama tapes didn't help. A majority of Americans (but only barely, and perhaps not even legally) decided to leave well enough alone. They'll come to regret it, I have no doubt.
In the meantime, your proposal to sell off gays and women and embrace guns and yahoos ... well, it occurs to me maybe you're supportin the wrong side. It's never to late to re-register as a Republican. The rest of us feel good about our mainstream Democratic values.